This post contains some vile and salacious allegations and mocks and debunks serious religious ideas of the brainwashed masses. Please do not read if you are easily offended, for I intend to insult and offend you if you are a gullible fool.
By Anna B. Mercury
Dan Spencer operates Boston Meditation Center, the eastern front of the J. Michael Shoemaker enterprise. One can contact Dan for information at Drteelee@aol.com.
Dan is a believer in Shakipat. Shaktipat, he believes, is the transmission of spiritual power from teacher to student. The guru transmits Shaktipat with a word, a look, a thought, or a touch.
Dan describes his journey into Shoemaker’s world below. Rudi was Shoemaker’s guru. He was also a businessman named Albert Rudolph. He made a lot of money using free labor from his Shaktipad-receiving followers.
Rudi used touch to transmit Shaktipat. He used his penis to touch his male disciple’s anuses.
His disciple, Shoemaker, AKA Chetanananda, also loved to transmit Shaktipat with a touch.
Shoemaker uses his penis and touches a woman’s mouth or vagina. Sometimes to assist in counteracting his flaccid energetic transmission, he transmits Shaktipad with his hands on a woman’s throat. He sometimes uses a dildo and transmits Shaktipad up her anus high up into her colon.
This is high-up teachings, and Dan does not expect the average reader, with their puritan morality and lack of cosmic understanding, to understand the sublimity of Shaktipat.
The disciplic succession. Nityanananda, Rudi and Shoemaker.
Visiting Rudi
by Dan Spencer
I first met Rudi when I was 23 and had just gotten out of the Army. I had served in Vietnam and Germany. I was going to go to school in Bloomington, Indiana, mainly because my sister was there.
I first met Michael Shoemaker (now Swami Chetanananda) in 1971. He had just returned from a visit with Rudi in New York City and was giving a talk on September 10 in a little church in Bloomington. I went to that talk, and I was so impressed that I just kept coming to programs. At that point, I couldn’t move into the house on 14th Street—my sister had gotten the last space.
But I got a cabin about 10 miles outside of Bloomington, and came to class and dinner every evening.
Rudi came to Bloomington in December 1971. I remember the fireworks well. Then he sent Buford Pippin to the ashram to do tantric class, and I felt a real connection to that. I knew this was the work I wanted to.
In the summer of 1972, I visited the ashram in Big Indian for a week, and then went to Rudi’s in New York City.
Rudi would teach eyes-open class in the evening, and then those of us staying at his house would go upstairs with him. He would continue to work with us, and I think I bounced off every wall in his apartment.
So there I was, blissed out. After a week, Rudi told me that spending more time with him would burn me out, and that I should return to Indiana and work to expand my chakras.
I returned to New York several times after that. There were a few students who lived in the house with Rudi, and those of us who were from out of town slept on the floor in the meditation hall.
Rudi’s mother was often there in the evenings after meditation. I was a little afraid of her. She would sit there with her dark glasses just looking at us, and rarely said anything.
On one visit, Rudi gave Michael sets of tantric implements—a bell, a dorje, a phurba, tingshas, bone mala, and a skullcup—for those of us who were with him. During the trip home in a small plane, we had to decide which ones belonged to each of us. We put the plane on auto-pilot while we passed the implements around the cabin. By the time we had decided which ones belonged to each of us, the autopilot had become totally scrambled and we were headed to Canada. The energy was that strong.
Oxford Ashram in 1972: From left: Doug, Bill Lennertz, Patricia Yinger, Larry Yinger, Dan Spencer, Al Dewitt, Laura Long, James Robinson, Bill
Another time, Rudi took a group of students to an art show in Connecticut that featured work by one of his students.
Rudi was dazzling—working with us the whole time and giving us shaktipat, while everyone else was looking at the art.
I worked hard when I was in New York with him. I painted houses, sanded floors, put up drywall, and did other kinds of construction.
Rudi said it was important to work physically to process the energy he was transmitting through shaktipat. So all the students from Bloomington worked very hard. That was one of the reasons Rudi had a special affection for us.
Eventually I lived at the ashram in Oxford, Ohio, and Rudi started calling me “the Cincinnati Kid.”
My sister Patricia, her husband Larry, and I were the teachers in Oxford. Rudi visited Bloomington and Oxford several times before he died.
I went to Rudi’s birthday party in New York in January 1973. The last time I saw Rudi was on February 3, 1973, during a trip he made to the Midwest. During those last months, he told me to make sure I had a connection with Michael.
Rudi was enormously loving and, simultaneously, he could be like a tiger. Being with Rudi always changed me. Each time I visited him, I came back a different person. I felt new, completely different.
This concludes Dan’s article. Now I will put in bold Dan’s fine words, and then explain as I understand it.
“Rudi came to Bloomington in December 1971. I remember the fireworks well. Then he sent Buford Pippin to the ashram to do tantric class, and I felt a real connection to that.
Rudi was reputed to have sex with male devotees and called it tantric.
Rudi would teach eyes-open class in the evening, and then those of us staying at his house would go upstairs with him. He would continue to work with us, and I think I bounced off every wall in his apartment.
Dan bounced off the walls getting Shaktipad from Rudi.
After a week, Rudi told me that spending more time with him would burn me out, and that I should return to Indiana and work to expand my chakras.
It seems Rudi had enough of expanding Dan’s orifices and sent him back to Shoemaker to work for free on his chakras by doing free labor.
Rudi gave Michael sets of tantric implements—a bell, a dorje, a phurba, tingshas, bone mala, and a skullcup—for those of us who were with him. During the trip home in a small plane, we had to decide which ones belonged to each of us. We put the plane on auto-pilot while we passed the implements around the cabin. By the time we had decided which ones belonged to each of us, the autopilot had become totally scrambled and we were headed to Canada. The energy was that strong.
This is a classic example of how cult followers attribute normal occurrences to the supernatural. The autopilot malfunctioned or was left unattended too long, and when it went off course, they attributed this to Rudi’s power.
I worked hard when I was in New York with him. I painted houses, sanded floors, put up drywall, and did other kinds of construction.
Dan did free labor. That’s how these gurus get rich.
Rudi said it was important to work physically to process the energy he was transmitting through shaktipat. So all the students from Bloomington worked very hard. That was one of the reasons Rudi had a special affection for us.
Yeah, he loved you dude, and you were lucky to do free labor for him.
Dan remains a “loved one” of Shoemaker and traveler to Portland to perform “seva” and contribute to the financial well-being of his “guru.”
Dan is married to Terri Spencer. She is a doctor and got lots of love from the “loved ones” on her Facebook page:
- Linda Pope,
- Benda Siraguse,
- Margie Pos,
- Patricia Yinger,
- Karen Kruger,
- Patty Slote,
- Joann Neel.
- Vanessa van Nieuwenhuysen,
- Saroj Bardewa,
- Karen Sutherland,
- Faith Sheppard,
- Drew Carlson,
- Claudia Henry,
- Monica O’Neal
- Aiden Seraphim.
Someone who reads Frank Report should let Dan and Terri know that some “older sweet ones” who closed their eyes, ears and mouths to 50 years of abuse left.
Faith has left. Karen no longer follows Shoemaker.
Or, maybe Aiden Seraphim, a former attendee of the Boston Meditation Center can tell them.
Contact Aiden at 978-701-5125 or heartcenteracu@gmail.com.
Aiden can be reached in Gold Beach.
29740 Ellensburg Ave.
P.O. Box 1013
Gold Beach, OR 97444
Was he there when Lillianna, Jesse and Megan left?
Adian could answer questions for Dan and Terri and for us.
I live in Gold Beach, OR. It kills me that the beautiful home built for a family is now being used to house a cult. Do not for a minute think the community is ignorant of its existence. Jen Wilhelm and Aidan/Seraphim are running a business in the middle of town! Chiropractor/acupuncture. I have a business in town and would love to post a No Cults sign in my window! Towns people would love them run out of the county. My hope is they will get complacent and screw up enough to need to leave. We have no love of Swami Chet .
Chief of the Secret Police: Tom Fabrizio.
I witnessed him threaten a disabled person.
How much money was extracted from Pat Tarzian I wonder over the decades? Hone Ames, Kerry Smith, Buzz and Kristin Krieger, Salman Kahn, Barnett Davis, who else was behind the scenes funding his lifestyle? How many knew it was paying for his cocaine and prostitutes? Buying the expensive jewelry every single one of his girlfriends were given. Some didn’t know about his proclivities but some certainly did. How many of you kept paying donations and receiving special treatment while turning their backs on the women used, abused and tossed by the swami? You think you’re all good spiritual people. My ass. You were all part of this horror show. The ones who stayed til the end. Who stay still. Face it. You’re terrible people.
Secrets, secrets, and more secrets.
Translation: lies, lies, and more lies.
The Church of Divine Dirty Business.
Spiritual practice doesn’t make people into better people. Ever notice that? I wonder why….
Sad statement on human beings. But-true.
So true. It makes them far worse. Insular, entitled, cunning, back-stabbing, self-righteous.
Remember one time when Pat Tarzian said at the end of class, “I love you sooooooooo much”?
Then, she never came back! Knee slap, belly roll, guffaw…tears of laughter.
She had a “special deal” with the Swami. It went south. Just like they all do. Her Son, Kristofer wants nothing to do with Swami. No one ends up wanting anything to do with this guy. Only the “lifers”, and barnacles, who have no vision for their lives, nor the strength to venture out on their own. Anyone with any sense of themselves, LEFT this place. For good reasons.
Got any comeback for this critique? Then it’s settled.
Hey Sadhvi, what do you think about Swami’s stupid special deals he makes with people? What do you tell yourself about this rediculous dynamic?
What do you think about the fact that Swami attempts to take credit for others’ accomplishments..?
And what about his drug addiction?
What excuse do you allow yourself for that?
You are completely full of shit yourself and a deluded individual. Learn that.
How Shoemaker, aka Swami Chetanananda and Keith Raniere, aka Vanguard are alike, yet another piece of the cult leader puzzle. (they both have to have “special” names for themselves)
https://frankreport.com/2022/10/19/two-cult-leaders-one-in-prison-similar-in-crimes/
Taken from Daniel Shaw’s post, I watched The Vow, Season 2, Episode 5 last night.
A few thoughts:
Random acts of sadistic cruelty is the fuel that fires up the dead, rotten hearts of these cult leaders. Their underlying malignant envy and hatred is what drives them more than anything else. That is what drives them to pose as saviours and masters, so that they can fulfill their insatiable need for domination, control, power. Sex and money are just symbols of power and control, people are props and toys for them to prey upon and exploit. They are empty and dead inside, and it’s only domination and control that makes them feel alive.
It’s amazing how people who are, above all else, just utterly, insanely selfish, can be so impressive and intimidating, and inspire so much loyalty and devotion in those they defraud. Animals can be extremely aggressive, and we see dominance and what looks like cruelty in the animal world, when they must fight for survival. But you have to go to the insects and the microbes, to diseases like cancer, to find an organic analog for the ruthless cruelty and destructiveness that human beings (like Raniere and Shoemaker) are capable of.
I think this expresses who he is more than anything I’ve ever read.
Is Connie Dyer at Gold Beach? One of the old sweet ones 🤣🤣🤣
No way
Can I learn shaktipad? It’s the best pick up line ever. I promise chicks I will give them spiritual knowledge if they fuck me the way I want.
I can tell them to do anything because I know and they don’t.
Super con.
Anatomy of Swami’s special deals: He sets up unique “special deals” with people, that are unsustainable and are frequently misinterpreted. The number of students for example who think that they are “Special” numbers as many as exists. It is a stupid, bullshit game that Chetanananda uses to screw with students’ minds. It always ends badly. Examples: he tells young women that they don’t need to do anything. No helping out with chores around the house, nor do they even have to go to class. This is outright harmful information, and represents misdirection. He also tells you ladies that having sex with him will advance their cause spiritually. This is utter bullshit, and there is ZERO evidence that it actually works. In fact, it never has worked for anyone.
Swami is a master of playing games with people. He is a complete liar, and and a total asshole.
Got all that Sadhvi? Got all that Theresa? MONI? Are you there?
All of you have been duped by this douchebag of a guy. And, now, you just sit there and defend your poor choice of aligning yourselves and your lives with this bully/ogre.
Michelle, how are you feeling about your disloyalty to your friends, and the fact that you made a bad choice?
Hey Theresa, how do you feel about the fact that your ex brother in law wants nothing to do with Swami?
Got it? Pay your bills, you deadbeat.
A link to my story of rape
https://frankreport.com/?s=Swami
oops
heres the link
https://frankreport.com/2022/06/16/five-decades-of-abuse-swami-chetanananda-raped-me-in-the-meditation-room-in-the-1970s/
Hey Frank let’s all work together double time to post links here in the comments to the other Swami Chetananada articles!
They are working double time to bury your stories so we can work double time to keep them at the top of Google’s search results.
If we work as a team we can beat them at their own game!
Agreed.
Perhaps a drop down menu for all the Shoemaker articles or an easy way to access them.
Do you want people to paste links in the comments?
That might work.
Well, I’ll start by reposting links to my favorite articles, and by favorite I mean the ones that finally reveal the full perversion of this craven monster:
More Intel on Amazing Swami Who Strangles, Beats and Trains Women for Gang Bangs: https://frankreport.com/2022/05/19/more-intel-on-amazing-swami-who-strangles-beats-and-trains-women-for-gang-bangs/
And let’s not forget “Jim” who open this 50 year vault of silence,
Bat-Wielding Swami Sent Woman to Gang-Bang:
https://frankreport.com/2022/05/17/bat-wielding-swami-sent-woman-to-gang-bang/
Make sure the article content includes his full name, spelt correctly. If possible, put it in the title as well, within the first 60 characters. Some of the earlier articles misspelt Chetanananda. Use Swami Chetanananda and Michael Shoemaker in the article, title, and/or tagged.
For the people at home, click on the articles regularly and stay on them for a while before closing. All of this data is logged and contributes to search engine ranking.
This is SO pertinent and useful and extremely Helpful!! Thankyou very much! Will do
There’s a lot more that can be done by Frank but he’ll need expertise. There’s no doubt in my mind that Michelle (Lawson) Valentino has been tasked with retaining a professional to keep Swami Chetanananda’s ranking occupying the first several pages of searches. This is why they have so many pages of different content, so they fill the search rankings of the first few pages and only people doing a deep dive will find Frank’s.
will doooo
Dildos? Sexual transmission of shaktipat? Swami Chetanananda deserves to have his head handed to him on a platter. What a serious asshole. This guy is the most dishonest individual I have ever encountered. Sick, sick person. At the root of all of this is a very simple fact: he hates himself, because he knows how big a loser he really is. And, in turn, he hates his students and people in general. All hidden behind this facade of serving humanity.
And, his cult followers are nothing but servants to this perverted weirdo.
You hit his nail right on the head. He is very ugly inside and he hates himself. His energy is from the dark dark side. He is a destroyer.
Dan- You all worked very hard to move the energy around. How often and did anyone get paid or was this your reward?
Totally mesmerized by a conman
Aiden? Surely you jest! Aiden’s an a-hole wannabe with nothing to back it up. If the Feds showed up at his door in GB, he would deny ever knowing Chet or claim he was forced into his connection.
This is by far the weakest article written in this series. There is really no meat behind it whatsoever. Heard of an impossible burger? This entire post is a great big nothing Burger. Dan Spencer isn’t guilty of anything.
Calling out people still supporting this abusive man is absolutely relevant.
I really enjoyed this article. Lotsa meat with a bit of Spicey mustard. It is well researched and factual with a bit of humor.
Thank you Anna.
This is among the best articles written about the sagging spiritual cannibal because it manages to reveal, in a humorous way, the sick, disgusting activities Michael Shoemaker convinced his followers to submit to and his willing participants to join with him. We are reading it and taking it in, but the dash of humor helps us manage to keep reading because it is so shocking.
If all of the details were laid out as in a news report, we wouldn’t be able to read it all.
May I suggest watching the Netflix documentary about Albert Fish?There’s no humor in that.
And yet you wonder about Shoemaker’s future….what he is capable of.
Please help us stop this man.
Say… what happened to Jessica Becker? Did he really pay her off?
He liked to pit people against each other, so that he could save the day. This is what Jess told us about Shoemaker. Everyone he harmed is damaged. He is a rich, evil man.
It’s not so much ‘to save the day,’ it’s to isolate people and ensure that no one would share stories. If they weren’t confiding in each other then they were vulnerable and felt they only had him as their ally. Also he couldn’t have his women come to the realization that he was telling all of them the same BS *at the same time* and expose all his lies and bullshit.
As for Becker, she was leading the charge on this, and suddenly, poof, she’s gone leaving behind a recanting and insincere apologies. I’m not good at math but I know how to add 1+1.
http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-aiden-seraphim-heart-centered-transformational-wellness/
Anna
You had me laughing so hard with your description of the shaktipats i almost lost it.
BTW who are those happily shaktipated folks in the main photo?
Dan Spencer on the left and Christopher O’Brian tall guy with a beard. Both still seem to be, as Richard Read puts it, “in the grip of the Guru”. They both may have gotten their start with the con man Albert Rudloph, aka Swami Rudi. Shoemaker had Rudi’s “ashes” at the Movement Center and this “shrine” was visited by Rudi’s “loved ones”. There were also ashes of Rudi’s family placed in the gardens of the Center. Wonder how the original “loved ones” feel about having these ashes now part of an affordable housing project? Don’t forget that Rudi and Shoemaker got their start with the pedophile Muktananda.
https://frankreport.com/2022/05/07/two-swamis-muktananda-raped-women-and-girls-but-strangling-is-shoemakers-arena-alone/
Love your writing Anna! You’ve been gone too long. Hilarious!
Totally agree!